The largest sex discrimination case in US legal history may end up with 1.5 million women taking on Wal-Mart. The case started with only six women claiming that female workers were “paid less and promoted less often than men”, but once word got around a huge portion of Wal-Mart staff wanted to join up and ...
The Equality Act comes into force today in the UK. This means employers will no longer be able to discriminate against people for a host of reasons that they might have before. It [the Act] covers age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex (meaning gender) and ...
Hollywood is soon going to be telling the story of sexual equality at work through the movie Made In Dagenham. This movie is going to be released in October and is about a group of women in the UK who went on strike from the Ford factory after finding out that their pay was 15% ...
You know the age-old complaint that women get paid less than men? Well it turns out this might not be true. Recent research in the USA has found that this gap mostly exists among older people, but among the people under 30 women out earn men in 39 to 50 of the largest cities. ...
The Equal Pay Act was created in Britain forty years ago to help reduce the salary differences between men and women. A study was just released to say that male and female salaries will not be equal until at least 2067! The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) surveyed over 43,000 employees in 197 organizations. Some findings: senior ...
A female soldier in Britain has won a legal battle for claims of sex and race discrimination that forced her to quit her job. She was a single mother who was unable to find childcare on a few occasions, something seen as unacceptable in the military life. The problem with her situation was that, as she ...
In tune with the recent passing of the Equality Bill, the British Royal Navy has decided to allow women to serve as submariners. There seems to be a lot of apprehension about this and many excuses are being made about why it might not work. But it seems to me like these excuses are just ...
The British Government is going to allow fathers and mothers to share parental leave with up to three of the legal nine months being available to fathers and an additional three months unpaid. It’s about time fathers got some official recognition for their importance in the early life of their children.
BBC has started recruiting for women over 50 after accusations of ageism against the company. Looks like this could be a great opportunity for both ageist and “boys’ club” stereotypes to be dispelled.
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
